Trump47 Cabinet Picks & First 100 Days Agenda

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I predict that the GOP response after this hearing will be that (a) Democrats are mean and (b) you heard nothing new in the hearing, so no reason to vote against him.

Was he clearly unqualified, uninformed and dishonest? Yes, but you knew that already, so old news.

Does he has a history of drinking and infidelity problems? No, he has overcome great personal challenges but we do t need to focus on what this challenges were and anyway he said he won’t drink on the job if confirmed as SecDef and Senators drink on the job and have affairs all the time.
 




[Hegseth’s body language is sort of hilarious in the last clip as he relaxes once it is clear he in a safe space for this line of questioning]
 
ZenMode said:
Also @rodoheel

Yes, I would say that. I would be absolutely shocked if a former member of the military would use the military on the people they've sworn to protect regardless of who requested it.
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We literally just watched a former member of the military mow down the very people he was sworn to protect in a staggering act of domestic terrorism. So why would being a former member of the military keep Hegseth from kissing Donald's boots?

It's much more likely that that's EXACTY the reason he's been nominated to such a position that he is so woefully unqualified for. Especially after the months long tirade the president-elect has engaged in. A tirade in which he told anyone who would listen that he plans to weaponize both the DoJ & DoD.
 
dukeman92 said:
We literally just watched a former member of the military mow down the very people he was sworn to protect in a staggering act of domestic terrorism. So why would being a former member of the military keep Hegseth from kissing Donald's boots?

It's much more likely that that's EXACTY the reason he's been nominated to such a position that he is so woefully unqualified for. Especially after the months long tirade the president-elect has engaged in. A tirade in which he told anyone who would listen that he plans to weaponize both the DoJ & DoD.
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Also, See Mike Flynn.
 
ChileG said:
Except he already said he would.


Also, he was asked this during his hearing today and didn’t answer
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ZenMode said:
There are probably many things that our military/leadership has done that, by today's standards, seem unacceptable. Using nukes, as we did on Japan, being one of them. Even our local law enforcement behaves much, much differently than it would have 50 years ago. I don't think we'll ever know what truly happened at Kent State, and why some of the guardsmen opened fire, but I also believe it's an exception that proves the rule.

Obviously, I could be wrong, but I really don't see even Hegseth, even if ordered by Trump, using the military on US citizens.
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Except that he's already said that he would and was asked about it at the hearing today. When people tell you that they will do something if they are given the power, it's usually a wise move to believe them. Except that of course you don't, because your whole schtick here has been that Trump 2.0 won't really be that bad, and admitting that this guy might actually do what he's said he would do would ruin that line of argument.
 
dukeman92 said:
We literally just watched a former member of the military mow down the very people he was sworn to protect in a staggering act of domestic terrorism. So why would being a former member of the military keep Hegseth from kissing Donald's boots?

It's much more likely that that's EXACTY the reason he's been nominated to such a position that he is so woefully unqualified for. Especially after the months long tirade the president-elect has engaged in. A tirade in which he told anyone who would listen that he plans to weaponize both the DoJ & DoD.
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He wasn't performing that act as a military action/command. There's no way to account for mentally unstable people.
 
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